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GCP – Announcing new Google Research Innovators, bringing more science to the cloud
With access to ever more data, compute capacity, and storage capabilities, the cloud is revolutionizing scientific research across the globe. By migrating their data and processing to the cloud, researchers can accelerate breakthroughs and solve real-world problems faster. Now in its second year, the Google Cloud Research Innovators Program promotes collaboration among a global cohort […]

GCP – Load balancing Google Cloud VMware Engine with Traffic Director
The following solution brief discusses a GCVE + Traffic Director implementation aimed at providing customers an easy way to scale out web services, while enabling application migrations to Google Cloud. The solution is built on top of a flexibleandopen architecture that exemplifies the unique capabilities of Google Cloud Platform. Let’s elaborate: Easy: The full configuration […]

GCP – Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Francisco, the Ecuadorian American
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data analytics tools to do incredible things. Like any good superhero tale, we explore our Google Cloud Data Heroes’ origin stories, how they moved from data chaos to a data-driven environment, what projects and challenges they are […]

GCP – Four back-to-school and off-to-college consumer trends retailers should know
Is it September yet? Hardly! School is barely out for the summer. But according to Google and Quantum Metric research, the back-to-school and off-to-college shopping season – which in the U.S. is second only to the holidays in terms of purchasing volume1 – has already begun. For retailers, that means planning for this peak season […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 14 (14.3). PostgreSQL 14 includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. […]

AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN introduces Private IP VPNs for enhanced security and privacy
Starting today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports the ability to deploy IPSec VPN connections over Direct Connect using private IP addresses. With this change, customers can encrypt DX traffic between their on-premises network and AWS without the need for public IP addresses, thus enabling enhanced security and network privacy at the same time. Read More for […]

Azure – Public preview: Durable Functions for Java
Durable Functions are now supported when building Java applications in Azure Functions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud Security Overview
When you think about Cloud Security there are many areas of responsibility – securing infrastructure, network, data, applications, and managing identities and access. There are also ongoing processes for security operations and governance, risk & compliance management. But the best part of building your application on cloud is that you share the security responsibility with […]

AWS – AWS Fargate now fully supports multiline logging powered by AWS for Fluent Bit
Amazon ECS now fully supports multiline logging powered by AWS for Fluent Bit for both AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2. AWS Fluent Bit is an AWS distribution of the open-source project Fluent Bit, a fast and a lightweight log forwarder. Amazon ECS users can use this feature to re-combine partial log messages produced by your […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces quality update to its Forms extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce a quality enhancement to our Forms extraction feature. Read More for the details.